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• s  repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  hackneyed phrases

• Those are the most hackneyed excuses I've heard all day.
• There were no fresh ideas in the election manifesto of the party, instead there were a bunch of hackneyed phrases.
• It may sound like the plotline of a hackneyed Hollywood thriller, but hundreds of thousands of Americans may have already been victims of identity theft.

• banal
• commonplace
• old-hat
• shopworn
• stock
• threadbare
• timeworn
• tired
• trite
• well-worn

News & Articles

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• Film review: 'Kings of Summer' a teen comedy gem
  Minnesota Public Radio's Stephanie Curtis discusses "The Kings of Summer" in this week's Cube Critics video. Curtis said the familiar story is goes from hackneyed to a gem in the hands of director Jordan Vogt-Roberts.
  June 7, 2013 - Minnesota Public Radio

Quotes

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• Dan Schneider in Kansas City Star
  Schneider says he's always striving to raise the bar in his genre while desperately avoiding "hackneyed writing, silly premises and low production values."
• Ron Dennis in ITV.com
  McLaren boss Ron Dennis said the result proved the truth one of racing's perennial clichés: "One of the oldest motor racing phrases ever coined is: 'To finish first, first you have to finish.' Hackneyed it may be, but it's true nonetheless."...
• Michael Feinstein in New York Times
  The concept of the album followed a circuitous path,Mr. Feinstein explained recently in the piano room of his Upper East Side town house. "It began as a tribute to the Greatest Generation without the hackneyed material. Then it became...